I thought Hexbear users didn't assume gender.

apologies, we have pronoun tags on Hexbear so that we don't have to assume, we can just know.

democracy is when most of your country disapproves of their elected representatives and authoritarianism is when most of your country approves of their elected representatives and yes, there are in fact elections in China and even (hold on to your hat for this one) North Korea!

Is democracy is the mere condition of being able to choose from two awful choices, or is it instead the condition of having a competent government of which most of the population approves of?

Could you see how it would be incredibly easy to create an authoritarian government if you decided to have effectively the same party swap power every couple terms, so long as you defined "democracy" as "the ability to vote for what party rules over your state"? Could you see how it would be much more difficult to fulfil the latter definition without actually addressing the concerns of the populace, which bad authoritarian states would have a hard time doing?

"authoritarianism" is the condition of one person, or group of people, having coercive or even violent power over another. all governments are authoritarian, obviously, and most are very authoritarian. Lenin's definition of the state as the means for the outnumbered class (the rich, the elite, the bourgeoisie, whatever) to exert control over the working class is the most sensible and applicable definition I've ever found, and by that definition, and by the fact that people all around the world have to labor for the rich regularly to not starve or become homeless, all countries are generally pretty comparable in "authoritarian-ness", making it an awful way of defining countries at all.

are you just reading from the script or what?

Says the brain genius that has been non stop NPC posting how everyone is a bot or 'BrAiNwaSheD'

Couldn't help but notice you raising pronouns as a 'gotcha' and not actually providing your pronouns.

Hey maybe you'll have a better experience with the community on this website if you stop being such a giant piece of shit

Whether a country is a democracy or not depends on whether its people are really the masters of the country. If the people are awakened only for voting but enter a dormant period soon after, if they are given a song and dance during campaigning but have no say after the election, or if they are favored during canvassing but are left out in the cold after the election, such a democracy is not a true democracy.

—Xi Jinping